Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-10-21

| lNul nut gone uktn nc WllN H'IuttHN' INV
agen the bridge before ] went under ~
John nodded, and putting his left hand
| over hers lying in his right said huskily;
"Did it hurt very bad Nancy dear = and
| them breaking down altogether, poor John
| knelt by the bed and laid his head on the
iron at the top of the bed and sobbed like
IA child
"Dontee, John, now dont'ee, said Nan
| cy the red blood coming like wave into
her face suddenly.
1T was not so very bad was dazed
and didn't feel like at all Don't cry, John
| | be a lot better and it don't hurt now.
can't bear to have you cry" and the poor
child's voice got rough and the great tears
rolled over her cheeks and she moved her
hand TO pull Johns head down close to her
and whispered, 1T was you who saved me,
John, you know Oh, don't cry So John
Pm be etter"
For moment or two the poor fellow
sobbed helplessly over his little crushed
| playfellow; and then when she said 'you
mustn't, John the lady can see through
that little window and she'll make yer 20,
he kissed the hand he was holding and sat
back in the chair and looked pitifully at her
feeling a great helpless brute
John, said Nancy shyly, after mo-
ment, what made you say l was your
sweetheart, when ! amt ~
"You are, Nancy ! didn't know it my
self till | come to tell the lady you was
naught to me, and then knowed you were
everything, and all I've got to care for.
| When you come out of this you'll he my
sweetheart, won't you, Nancy ~
Nancy smiled with the tears hardly dry
and said, 1T did sound strange to hear you
say out like that She's my sweetheart =
/ But | think | may be, she said after a mo
ment, looking roguishly up at john who
leant over her and kissed her
Come home soon, Nancy, he said "and
| III take better care of you. You shan't
jump off the barge agen, nor get drowned
no more"
The door opened to admit doctor and
the sister. John stood up and touched his
forehead to the DOCTOR who nodded and
said
your sisters over the age, my man
she ought to have been taken to the infirm-
ary, but as we have taken her in we must
| get her well. How old are you p he added
to the girl
"1'm sixteen and eight months, sir"
Dear me, she doesn't look it, does she.
sister y
ono" said the sister, taking down card
that hung over the bed and adding the age
to it,
ITS the short curly hair makes her look
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ra,,tines ,rords bnt which lifted a load off
tbe moor faIloy's heart 'If she lies still
AMI zoos ne sba's told she'll pull through
now now bnt vou'd better not stop now talk
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|
1atient room and give me YOUR address.
stSio,s ,,,,- s,,etbeart sir said John
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sbornIy from one TO the other. Then
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Bn+ hin, =, man Of oIick sympathy. and
aItSl,,l,b ba ,,as a doctor and "man of sci
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caIlod tLa s;ster outside the door as he left
m rive tbe voung things a moment tc
themselves while he impressed upon hel
that Nancy must on no account attempt tc
move.
1--WE shall have some mischief with that
broken rib unless we look out. But so fai
she's doing splendidly."
John caught the last words as he too
came ont and how tleV altered the look Ol
things for him
When he had enterod that room he dread
, od 20 IoolL at his noor-as he Thought dyin.
nlovpate Now He straigbtened him
plitS ipaif ,,', ord sn;led hack at Nancy. VIII,
- r. ha,. b,nJ to him in the doorway
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